Wool vs Tool - What's the difference?
wool | tool |
The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
* 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
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Anything with a texture like that of wool.
* 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
* Shakespeare
(British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
(senseid)A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
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, title= Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
(slang) Penis.
(by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather .
To equip with tools.
To work very hard.
(slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
(volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
(transitive, UK, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.)
As a proper noun wool
is a village in dorset, england.As a noun tool is
(senseid)a mechanical device intended to make a task easier.As a verb tool is
to work on or shape with tools, eg, hand-tooled leather .wool
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
- wool of bat and tongue of dog
Coordinate terms
* (hair of sheep) goathair, horsehair, qiviutHyponyms
* (cloth or yarn) felt, tweed, worstedDerived terms
* andalusian wool * breech wool * burry wool * cotton wool * dead pulled wool * dyed in the wool * fleece wool * glass wool * ice wool * mineral wool * much cry and little wool * pull the wool over somebody's eyes * rag wool * scoured wool * seed wool * Shetland wool * shorn wool * steel wool * thibet wool * virgin wool * warm as wool * waste of wool * wire wool * wool grease * wool oil * woolgathering * woollen, woolly * woolly, woolySee also
* (wikipedia "wool")tool
English
(wikipedia tool)Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* toolbar * toolbox * toolchain * tool chest * tooling * toolkit * toolless * toollike * toolmaker * toolsetVerb
(en verb)- Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.